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Book SynopsisA study of the work of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963). The works of the twentieth-century Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) are characterised by their fragmentary and disunified nature, with a wide range of complexities and contradictions. Concentrating on the well-known La realidad y el deseo, Dr McKinlay considers the poems from the perspective of the widespread loss of faith in God, exploring the tension between Cernuda's perception of chaos and desire for order, which co-exist in dialectical opposition. NEIL C. MCKINLAY is college lecturer in Spanish at New College, Oxford.
Trade ReviewTo be welcomed... engaging monograph. Will be useful to students of all levels... A close reading of the text with a whole school of critics - Harruis, Bruton and Silver in particular - which provides an insightful overview of the verse as a whole. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES Stimulating argument and insightful close reading... to be recommended to all serious studiens of 20th-century Spanish poetry. * MLR *
Table of ContentsPart 1 The crisis of faith. 2 Order into chaos - the loss of the absolute: Luis Cernuda - poet of "Eros", ethics or crisis of faith?; the age of loss; the loss of order; the consequences of the loss of order. Part 3 Search for absolute order: the reasons for searching; the goal of the search; the process of searching; the result of the search. Part 4 Search for order in the material world I - "love": the sexual awakening; the experience of "love"; the purpose of "love". Part 5 Search for order in the material world II - art: the theory of art; the practice of art - the disintegration of meaning, the reintegration of meaning, synthesis.
